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- South African political activist, founder and leader of teh Black Consciousness Movement, born Kinwilliamstwon, Cape Province. He became involved in politics while studying medicine at Natal University, and was one of teh founders (and first president) of the all-black South African Students Organization (1969). In 1972 he became honorary president of the Black People's Convention, a coalition of over 70 black organizations.
- Bantu Steven Biko was born on 18 December 1946 in Ginsberg, a township outside King William's Town
- He died at 30 years old
- he was dead after being severely beaten while in police custody.
- He believed that black people should lead the fight against apartheid.
- Frustrated by the multiracial Nusas, he and his colleagues founded the South African Student's Organisation (SASO) in 1969
- In 1973, he was banned by the apartheid government.
- On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested while travelling home from a political meeting with his friend Peter Jones